Prometheus

Both Jaeger and Prometheus are popular open-source application performance monitoring tools. While Jaeger is an end-to-end distributed tracing tool, Prometheus is used as a time-series database for monitoring metrics. Let's dive in to explore their key features and differences.

Datadog is a cloud-based SaaS solution, meaning there's no need to install or maintain any infrastructure. While on the other hand being open-source, Prometheus requires manual download and installation on your infrastructure...

Discover the key differences between OpenTelemetry and Prometheus for observability and monitoring. Learn when to use each tool and how they complement each other.

Prometheus and InfluxDB are both open-source projects that can be used for monitoring time-series data. While Prometheus is a metrics monitoring tool graduated under CNCF, InfluDB is a time-series database. In this article, let’s have a side-to-side review of Prometheus vs InfluxDB to...

Both Prometheus and Elasticsearch stack provide monitoring solutions for applications in production. But while Prometheus is focused on metrics monitoring, the Elasticsearch stack or the ELK stack specializes in logs...

Prometheus Query Language (PromQL) lets users query and aggregate metrics data in Prometheus for further analysis. In this tutorial, we will learn about Prometheus Query Language and see it in action using examples of PromQL...

In this blog, we explain how we enable high availability Prometheus using Cortex and Cassandra. This provides a single pane of view across multiple clusters - which enables visualising all monitoring metrics in one go.

PromCon is one of the premier conference on Prometheus and related tools like Grafana. This is held every year where developers from around the world gather to learn the latest in monitoring technologies.

In this blog, let's see how to set up Prometheus and Grafana in EKS and how to monitor Python based applications using Prometheus.